and No mention of FIRING the Batting coach!! Hmm the Rangers did and they were 4th in hitting, the Reds are sinking and NO URGENCY!! Was last year a fluke like 99?? no improvements where they are obvious to SMART baseball fans at SS and LF.!! A country club atmosphere and they didnt play that way last year. Guess losing doesnt matter! Wish BOB and Walt would pretend we are the Cardinals and do something!! AND the Cardinals didnt have 3 million fans when they were a loser.. So dont throw that attendence gargabe out there.. Reds go get Kemp and Reyes, that will sell tickets!! because watching a slow Renteria, and a non hitting Janish and Gomes doesnt excite me to think this team will be better than the Pirates once they pass the Reds in the standings!! ITS NOT EARLY.. its getting late!

Yes, I agree, it’s much later than most people think, but let’s be realistic. This is the second tiniest market in all of baseball. The revenue doesn’t exist to go get people like Kemp and Reyes. Even if they could absorb such contracts, they would seriously mortgage their future by giving up the young talent that teams like the Mets and Dodgers would surely demand. And most astute baseball people see a future with the young nucleus they presently have stockpiled. Hold on to that precious cargo. Remember: even the great team of the Seventies had periodic downyears like 1971 and 1977. It’s hard, but we must be patient. Homegrown talent is the only way a small market can hope to compete. Moreover, it isn’t attendance anymore that separates the men from the boys. The Cardinals generate tv revenue from a huge swath of the Midwest, much larger and more lucrative than Reds’ country, hemmed in by the Cub, Tiger, and Indian faithful to our north and Brave followers to our south. Jockety and the owner run an operation many steps off the pace run by St. Louis.

A down year? It’s not even halfway through the season guys. Calm down. If you can’t take the ups and downs of a season, then maybe you shouldn’t be baseball fans. Oh wait, that can’t be, let’s start firing people. Ha.
Curt

Curt of Athens, you are correct, sir! Everything before the All Star break is pre-season. However, when the team wins one like last night, I can’t tell if it’s the turn round at last, or a blind squirrel finding a nut.

I think, relative to expectations, that this is a down year with, to be sure, the potential to go either way. Utter disappointment is still a realistic option given the “rhythms” of the season’s first half. But egregiously inaccurate is your lumping my response in with the hyperbolic points of the ‘firing” maniac. A careful reading should have yielded the inescapable conclusion that I too was taking these kneejerk reactions to task…

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